Quotes About Acceptance

If you prepare for old age old age comes sooner.

My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.

I am dying but otherwise I am quite well.

I think, for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.

And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.

You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not.

Seeing everything just the way it is gives you the power and capability to walk through life effortlessly.

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you're giving it power.

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.

The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power.

Loving everything about yourself - even the 'unacceptable' - is an act of personal power. It is the beginning of healing.

Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future.

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

When you have done everything that you can do, surrender. Give yourself up to the power and energy that's greater than yourself.